Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

The camp cook was often called the “cocinero” (Spanish for “male cook"), or simply “coosie” for short.

Tex-Mex DictionaryCOCINERO (ko-SEE-nair-o)
Male cook. In early pioneer days, the ‘chuck wagon’ on the trail drives was generally an aging cowboy who was the highest paid worker on the drive. In Tex-Mex history, he was referred to as the “cocinero”, especially when of Spanish descent.

I am 75 years old and raised on a ranch in west Texas. We had a chuckwagon that I remember well. Looks just like the one on page 1 of The Texas Cowboy Kitchen cookbook by Grady Spears. Until I read his cookbook, I always thought our ranch chuckwagon cook was named Coosie.....just learned that The Coosie was a universal name for “male cook” from the Spanish cocinero. Just had to check the web to see if that was really the case. Live and learn even at 75!!!